Ahmed El-Sayed Mohamed Hussein Gaber | Visiting Faculty | Center for Remote Sensing

Ahmed El-Sayed Gaber

Visiting Scholar

Center for Remote Sensing
Boston University
725 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215-1401

Telephone: (617) 353-7302
Fax: (617) 353-3200
E-mail: aegaber@bu.edu

Assistant Lecturer of Applied Geology
Suez Canal University, Faculty of Education
Department of Biology and Geology Sciences
Mohamed Ali St.
Port-Said, Egypt

Telephone: 002-066-3235367
Mobile: 002-0105129693
Fax: 002-066-3341303
Email: ahmedgaber_881@Hotmail.com

Education

2006: M.Sc. Geology (Sedimentology and Remote Sensing), Suez Canal University. Title: "Sedimentomorphic Studies of the Gafton Archipelago North West of the Red Sea, Hurghada, Egypt".

1999: B.Sc. Geology (Hons.), Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University.

Employment History

2006: Assistant Lecturer, Department of Biology & Geology, Faculty of Education, Suez Canal University.

2001-2006: Demonstrator, Department of Biology & Geology, Faculty of Education, Suez Canal University.

Language Proficiency

Fluent Arabic and English

Computer Experience

Professional awareness with software such as: ERDAS Imagine, ENVI and ARCGIS, Coral draw, Surfer and Photoshop.

Professional Affiliations

Member, Egyptian Society for Environmental Science
Member, Egyptian Geological Society

Fields of Research

Land use planning for sustainable development
Environmental impact assessment projects
Groundwater monitoring and exploration using remote sensing and GIS techniques

Consultation and Projects

2005: Member of the scientific team of the Tao project - Gupco Company Egypt
2003: Member of the scientific team of El-Sukhna new port project, Egypt
2002: Member of the scientific team of the Akhen project - Gupco Company Egypt

Teaching

Lecturing the following geological practical courses in Suez Canal University: Crystallography, Mineralogy, Petrology, Field Geology, Stratigraphy, Hydrogeology, Petroleum Geology, Structural Geology and Paleontology.

Publications

Farouk El-Fawal and Ahmed Gaber, 2005. El-Gafton El-Kabir Reef Island, NW Red Sea: Sedimentomorphic Analysis and Genesis, Journal of Petroleum & Mining Engineering, Suez Canal University, Vol.8, No. 1, pp. 33-53.

Mohamed El-Nouby and Ahmed Gaber, 2006. Geothermal studies at Gebel El-Maghara Area, North Sinai , Egypt , 1st international conference of the Egyptian Society for Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Science, Suez Canal University.

Shams Shaheen and Ahmed Gaber, 2006. Mineral Composition of El-Gafton Islands Sediments, Northwestern Red Sea, Hurghada, Egypt, 7th Conference of Geochemistry, Geology Department, Faculty of Science, Alexandria University.

Fikry Khalaf and Ahmed Gaber, 2007. "Occurrence of Palustrine and Calcrete deposits within the Upper Miocene (Hagul Formation) East Cairo , Egypt" Submitted in Journal of African Science.

Ahmed Gaber, Eman Ghoneim, Fikry Khalaf and Farouk El-Baz, 2007. Delineation of Paleolakes in Arid Regions Using Remote Sensing and GIS” Submitted in Journal of Arid Environment.

Ahmed Gaber, Magaly Koch and Farouk El-Baz, 2007. Textural and Compositional Characterization of Wadi Deposits in Arid Land Using Data Fusion and Linear Mixture Modeling” ( In preparation)